Goodness Quotes

Mere goodness can achieve little against the power of nature.

Our awesome responsibility to ourselves, to our children, and to the future is to create ourselves in the image of goodness, because the future depends on the nobility of our imaginings.

My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.

My goodness, my hair's been talked about by a million people, you know? It sort of goes with the territory.

Only a writer who has the sense of evil can make goodness readable.

Goodness is something that makes us serene and content; it is magnificent. Those who are not good are evil.

Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.

Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

I'm not getting to heaven on my integrity. I'm not getting to heaven on my goodness.

Goodness and hard work are rewarded with respect.

Religion enabled society to organise itself to debate goodness, just as Greek drama had once done.

People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

Goodness comes out of people who bask in the sun, as it does out of a sweet apple roasted before the fire.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

One goes through school, college, medical school and one's internship learning little or nothing about goodness but a good deal about success.

If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

There are very few misanthropes, thank goodness!

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

'I don't need brains,' says the billionaire contemptuously. 'I'm brainy enough myself!' The broker cries out in desperation, 'What, in heaven's name, do you want?' 'Goodness,' is the answer.

The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction.

It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.

No man deserves to be praised for his goodness, who has it not in his power to be wicked. Goodness without that power is generally nothing more than sloth, or an impotence of will.

God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.

Right now, I have to admit, that I'm more interested in giving people a little bit of hope and goodness.

Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.